EU Dpa Enforcement

On June 29, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Trump v. Slaughter that the president may remove Federal Trade Commission commissioners at will, eliminating the statutory protections that had shielded agency leadership from political pressure for decades. The ruling does not automatically void the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the transatlantic mechanism that permits companies to transfer personal data from Europe to the United States. But it has destabilized the legal foundation on which the European Commission built its 2023 adequacy decision—a determination that explicitly relied on FTC independence as a safeguard for European data subjects.